Motivational Quotes

Anger

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Seneca

2.

The best answer to anger is silence.

3.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

4.

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

5.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

6.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

7.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

8.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

9.

Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Laurence J. Peter

10.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

11.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

12.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

13.

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

14.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

15.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

16.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

17.

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

18.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Bierce, Ambrose

19.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

20.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

21.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

22.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

23.

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

24.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

25.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

26.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

27.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

28.

Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.

Emily Dickinson

29.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

30.

Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

31.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

32.

Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

33.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

34.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

35.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

36.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

37.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

38.

A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.

Kundera, Milan

39.

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

40.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

41.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

42.

I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.